Jump In!

Our neighborhood has friendly faces and children zooming around on scooters, and well-tended lawns with pumpkins and mums plopped in front of mailboxes and front porches.

But it does not have mature trees.

And I really love trees.  I keep bugging Dave to add more trees to our yard, but he likes the open space.  The trees we do have are babies or maybe tweens.  But they are definitely not even close to being grown up. 

So on Wednesday, a free afternoon with no piano lesson or swim practice or choir rehearsal, we jumped in the car and headed to Grandma and Grandpa’s house.  They have lots of mature trees, therefore there were lots of crunchy, golden leaves littering the ground!
First some raking…
         

           

But before we were able to jump…Grandpa arrived!
              

Now let’s get jumping!

                 

          

                

The boys gave up on the leaf jumping after a few minutes but Maddie loved it and raked pile after pile (and destroyed pile after pile!) 
I found the boys in here….Grandpa’s workshop…Jack working the sander, Ben working the jigsaw.  Guess it’s hard to compete with power tools.

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